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REPORT CALLS FOR LONG-REJECTED COASTAL TURBINES

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TAP NIGHT DRAWS USUAL ANTICS

Hottest tix on campus. Next Thursday, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will speak at Sprague Hall, a venue that holds 680 people. Tickets went on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m. They were gone 10 minutes later, students waiting in line said. Didn’t get tickets?

No worries — though TD Master Jeff Brenzel said there won’t be more tickets released, University Vice President Linda Lorimer reminded the Yale community that the talk will be livestreamed.

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More on Yee ’12. Bail for Eric

Yee ’12, who was arrested in Santa Clarita, Calif., Monday after he allegedly posted comments on ESPN’s website saying he was watching children and would not mind killing them, was lowered from $1 million to $100,000 as he was charged with possession of an illegal weapon.

More buzz. As the Nobel

So much for a Red Connecticut. After a poll

put Mitt Romney only seven points behind Barack Obama in this year’s presidential race in Connecticut, conservative pundits were buzzing earlier this month at the prospect of turning the state red. They may be quieter now that a new poll out from the Hartford Courant and University of Hartford shows Obama leading Romney, 53 to 32, a 21 percent lead. That’s a lot of ground to make up.

The Next Susan Boyle?

Remember that orchestral and choral cover of Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe”

by New Haven- and Yalebased 3Penny Orchestra?

Since the cover was released last Tuesday, it has racked up nearly 1.4 million YouTube hits.

Quinnipiac terror. Two people were hospitalized Wednesday afternoon after a chemical reaction in a maintenance building formed a yellow cloud, causing eye and throat irritation, the New Haven Register reported.

What do you think, offcampus Elis? New Haven’s

City Plan Commission approved a request by a local developer to add 90 parking spots — instead of the 144 usually required for a new apartment building — at 1249 Chapel, the Independent reported.

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AT THE DROP OF A BROOM… Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry sent a cappella groups running in search of their new members with the ceremonial drop of a broom on Old Campus Wednesday night.

The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the family of a victim of the 2003 car crash that killed four Yale students and injured five others may proceed in a lawsuit against the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity on the grounds of negligence.

The students, all of whom were members of DKE, were returning to campus from a New York City fraternity event when their SUV collided with a tractor-trailer at around 5 a.m. on Jan. 17, 2003. The family of one of the students killed, Nicholas Grass ’05, filed lawsuits against DKE and several other defendants in 2005. Though the Connecticut Superiore Court ruled in favor of the fraternity in September 2009, the Wednesday reversal will now send the case to a trial by jury.

“If you open your door up and say to a friend, hop in and let’s go to New York or wherever, you have to drive carefully, and if you don’t, you’re responsible for your friend’s safety,” said Steven Ecker ’84, a lawyer representing the Grass family. “The same is true for a third person or organization.”

The family states that the fraternity should have selected a more careful driver, alleging that DKE held responsibility for safely transporting students back to New Haven since it SEE DKE CRASH PAGE 4

Weaker returns expected for FY 2012

BY GAVAN GIDEON STAFF REPORTER Yale will likely see a lower return on its investments than the 21.9 percent it reported last year, based on the performance of endowments at the University’s peer institutions and of financial markets in fiscal year 2012.

In an interview with Bloomberg a week ago, Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman estimated that the school will register a zero to 5 percent return on its investments for the fiscal year that ended June 30, and on Sept.

14, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported an 8.0 percent return for the same period. While the Yale Investments Office has yet to release its own figures, which generally appear near the end of September, Provost Peter Salovey said

endowments across higher education are likely to report weaker performances than they did in the previous year.

“It seems unlikely that university endowments across institutions will see the kind of returns in 2011-’12 that they saw in 2010-’11,” Salovey said.

Over the past five years, Yale’s return on investments has always fallen within 6 percentage points of Princeton’s and 8 percentage points of MIT’s. In fiscal year 2011, when the value of the Yale endowment rose to $19.4 billion, Princeton tied Yale’s return of 21.9 percent and MIT reported a return of 17.9 percent. Colleges and universities nationwide averaged 19.2 percent returns that year, according to the 2011 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments.

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committee prepares to announce the winners of the 2012 prize in economics, Thomson Reuters has released a set of predictions for who could win — and, surprise, star economics professor Robert Shiller is on the list. Shiller was named one of four academics likely to receive the economics prize this year or in the future.

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Chipotle to come to New Haven

BY BEN PRAWDZIK STAFF REPORTER After years of anticipation, Yalies will soon have a local venue where they can enjoy the famous braised barbacoa and adobo chicken burritos they have been calling for — Chipotle Mexican Grill is finally on its way to setting up shop in New Haven.

A Tweet sent Wednesday night from the official Chipotle Twitter account said the restaurant should open in late January. News that the Denver-based food chain would make its way to the Elm City broke when passersby at 900 Chapel St., the former location of Caffe Bottega, noticed a work permit notification taped on the window. The bottom of the document reads “Renovate vacant restaurant for new Chipotle Mexican Grille [sic].” The signature of Andrew Rizzo Jr., the city building official whose office handles construction permit applications, is stamped at the bot-

tom of the permit.

In January 2011, Chipotle founder and CEO Steven Ells said in an email obtained by the News that he was looking for sites in New Haven for a potential opening in 2012, though the company did not make any statements on the matter until Wednesday night. Chipotle spokesman Chris Arnold could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

Chipotle’s arrival will be one of a series of high-profile brands to enter the Elm City over the last year, following last September’s opening of an Apple store on Broadway and this month’s arrival of Shake Shack on Chapel Street.

Abigail Rider, director of University Properties, which manages Yale’s business and residential real estate holdings, said these new arrivals demonstrate the city’s desirability as a market for new stores. She cited New SEE CHIPOTLE PAGE 6

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Keeping donor ties a focus for next pres.

BY TAPLEY STEPHENSON STAFF REPORTER During his 20-year term, University President Richard Levin oversaw the donation of $7 billion to Yale and cultivated close connections with the University’s biggest donors.

When he steps down on June 30, it will be up to his successor to maintain the relationships he worked to build.

Relationships with donors are widely considered one of the most fundamental components of fundraising, and Levin has been instrumental in securing major gifts. As the presidential search moves forward, those involved with Yale’s fundraising say the Uni-

versity and its next leader will need to prioritize preserving the strong relationships with donors that Levin has developed.

“First of all, because of the length of his tenure, he has developed very, very strong relationships with a large number of people,” former Vice President for Development Inge Reichenbach said. “Secondly, he has done so much for Yale that the alumni give him so much credibility and admiration, and he was very good in explaining the needs and explaining why he felt something should be a priority for Yale.”

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Promises not to make P

romises are dangerous things.

Ill-conceived promises may bind our hands before unforeseen events. This past year, many of us watched horrified as the United States nearly defaulted on its debt because members of Congress refused to back down from pledges they had signed opposing all new taxes.

Even worse, when broken, promises can rile up those who feel betrayed. Chicago’s cancellation of a “promised” 4 percent increase in teacher salary has become the rallying point around which local unions built a narrative of governmental disrespect. The fury they unleashed kept more than a quarter million kids home from their first days of class.

I think about these promises as I enter the synagogue on the evening of Yom Kippur.

The ritualized mechanics of the evening service are bizarre.

The synagogue is packed with members who attend services only once each year. All surfaces and most adult men are clothed in plain white. As the Day of Atonement begins, the stage is all set for an emotional appeal for divine mercy. But then the leader begins his chant: “Kol Nidre … Let all of our vows and oaths … be permitted, nullified and cancelled.”

The content of the prayer appears to be unforgivably anti-climactic. Year after year, I shudder at the thought of some random person who, hearing the haunting melody of the opening chant and feeling uplifted by its power, wanders into the synagogue and actually reads the prayer’s translation.

But even as I grimace at the image, I also sense that there is something profound about beginning the process of repentance and atonement by freeing ourselves from extraneous commitments and obligations. Indeed, it often seems that these commitments serve as a sort of barrier that needs to be removed before the real business of atonement can get started.

After a few years at Yale, I understand this wariness of promises more and more.

I often feel that I am buried under a sea of commitments — academic, religious, extra-curricular and social. I find myself running from meeting to meeting, shaving a few minutes off of the end of one and the beginning of the next. Even after writing over two dozen articles, I have yet to hand a column to my editors by deadline.

Each commitment distracts me from another, and my attention and time is never completely devoted to the person before me.

This is, I think, a feeling many in our hyper-programmed generation expe-

rience regularly.

We feel pulled and pushed, in demand and overextended.

It is incredibly YISHAI to SCHWARTZ difficult put all of this out of Dissentary our heads as we try to engage fully and meaningfully in anything, and yet perhaps this is precisely what we must do.

For those hours on your common room sofa discussing Kant or comforting a distraught roommate, let your obligations cease to exist.

Let them dissipate before the importance of your current project.

But there is also something deeper in the way the nullification of oaths kicks off the process of atonement. The Kol Nidre liturgy acknowledges how simple it is to make commitments, and how difficult it is to follow through. All of us enter Yale with obligations to family, community and humanity and whoever is providing the bulk of our tuition payments.

Yet we immediately add to these, rushing a cappella groups, joining teams and heeling newspapers. In doing so, we set ourselves up for failure as, inevitably, important details — and sometimes people — fall through the cracks. Sometimes doing better is simply a function of taking on less, and so perhaps we’re better off simply declaring all our future volunteer commitments to be null and void.

It would be simple to end with a slightly self-referential exhortation not to over-commit ourselves. But I have one last point: Resolutions to commit less are also dangerous — they’re just another form of oath.

Kol Nidre is the antithesis of a new year’s resolution.

We begin the year by saying we don’t do resolutions. The process of self-examination and change is long, and, too often, making a promise is a way to avoid actual introspection.

So as we move into this semester, don’t promise yourself that you will get more sleep or spend more time with that friend. Instead, simply think long and hard about why you don’t already. Perhaps then we can finally escape the constant specter of unfulfilled promises.

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Durfee’s Inferno W

hat is it about Durfee’s that makes us all jerkwads?

In theory, Durfee’s should be a pretty okay experience. Having slowly lost my standards over the course of my three years at Yale, I’m pretty excited by the prospect of trading my lunch swipe for a 5-hour Energy and a gigantic bar of chocolate. Or, if I should strangely want real food, sometimes Durfee’s has sushi. Well, or a substance approximating sushi.

Look, I’m not picky.

I don’t have high expectations.

But no matter how much I prepare myself for disappointment, Durfee’s is, each and every time I shop there, a living hell.

It’s small. It’s cramped. It’s like Grendel’s mother’s lair — dark, underground (sort of) and filled with overvalued treasure that, centuries from now, bards will laugh at us for having prized. You waited 20 minutes to spend $5 on a container of chocolate-hazelnut spread? Don’t you know you’ll die someday?

But unlike Beowulf, I am not the only hero who dares descend to Durfee’s in pursuit of the miracle health benefits of Greek yogurt.

That is, by far, the worst part of anyone’s Durfee’s experience: the myriad other souls, cramped together like passengers on Charon’s ferry, each enduring their private hell.

I survived a natural disaster (yes, I just pulled the Katrina card); I know how suffering can bring people together. I have seen hardship make saints of even the most selfish stooges. I have connected with people who in any other context would have hated me — but our anguish and uncertainty brought us together.

This is not what happens at Durfee’s. Instead, the approximately 10 square feet of floor space not occupied by shelving and refrigeration becomes the grounds for a barely contained free-for-all.

With the exception of a few pairs of friends, it’s every man for himself on the long, slow death march to the cash register. You just missed the Diet Coke, and you want to turn around and grab it real quick?

Good luck, son.

I have stood in the Durfee’s line so exuberant with good news I felt I would burst. I have stood in the Durfee’s line wearing sunglasses because I thought maybe this will

hide that I am crying — but they didn’t. I have stood in the Durfee’s line where my pretty new necklace caught and broke on another person’s backpack.

What do these three incidents have in common? Nobody said a word to me, nor I to them, until I reached the cash register and the cashier asked me, “Meal swipe?”

Never, in any place but Durfee’s, have I been so literally close to people and so absolutely alienated.

This isn’t Harvard. We’re generous here. We’re nice. We have conversations with random people — in dining halls, at the library, during lecture. We help each other out. And then we get in the line at Durfee’s and we turn into heartless misanthropes.

Because even if you’ve attained Buddhistic levels of complacency, Durfee’s — the institution, not the alienating, isolating experience of shopping there — is kind of offensive. If you’re at Durfee’s between the hours of 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., nearly everyone there has traded her $10 all-you-can-eat lunch swipe for $7 to spend on the most overpriced packaged food in North America. Everyone is trying, desperately, to pick two items

that will total to not more but not so much less than that $7, and everyone is deeply frustrated that only half of said items have marked prices. Some of the people in line have class soon. And some of those people still care about missing the first few minutes. Also, the music is awful.

But that doesn’t mean we have to be. The next time you’re at Durfee’s, instead of giving the person in front of you dirty looks for having lingered over the hummus a little too long, maybe — and I know this is a long shot — try striking up a conversation. Remember, you two have a lot in common; right now, you’re sharing the same nightmare. If you pass the time pleasantly, you might forget for a little while that you’re forgoing lunch to buy energy shots for the paper you have to write tonight. You might forget the anguish of everyday existence, the misery and suffering that is our human lot in life.

You might get him to lend you the $.50 you overcharged your meal swipe.

MICHELLE TAYLOR is a senior in Davenport College. Contact her at michelle.a.taylor@yale.edu .

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We need the big questions T

wo springs ago, one of the last things keeping me from choosing Yale was the fear that I might not get into Directed Studies. I knew Columbia, my other option, had a classics-heavy mandatory core curriculum, and that not everyone who applied to DS got in. I tried to leverage my matriculation at Yale into a spot in DS, but I ultimately had to apply and cross my fingers.

As it turned out, I got in. That summer, as I shopped for Plato online, I found a book by DS professor Tony Kronman called “Education’s End,” which I think really got at what made DS look so exciting to me. The premise of the book was that the pervading ethic in the humanities of putting research first is preventing the humanities from doing what they’re supposed to do — namely, giving students an encounter with life’s biggest questions, with DS as the paradigmatic example of this true education.

I knew without a doubt that this was what I wanted to get out of my first year at Yale.

Now, DS was amazing, and I could say many good things about it. There were certainly a lot of big questions bouncing around in

my head during it, questions that spilled into after-class discussions. But at its core, DS is a course about understanding texts rather than pursuing questions. There was always more reading, processing and analyzing than there was pondering. The questioning itself, though deep, was never deeply personal, was never pointed at me.

I think this is a problem. I don’t think it’s a problem with DS, or with any one class. I think it’s a problem with the way Yale sees our development as students.

We all know that Yale is a place where things get very academic, very fast. We, along with most departments, expect our professors to be brilliant rather than wise, and even the wise ones we usually don’t want to discuss our lives with. Our president is praised for taking care of infrastructure and the endowment, which he’s done a great job of, but isn’t looked to as a guide for the heart of the university.

Our humanities classes are first and foremost about analysis. A small case in point: My brother, who just graduated from Georgetown, took a class there called “The Problem of Evil,” where stu-

dents wrestled with questions about God, justice and the radical evil in our world. I sought a similar class here at Yale, and what I got was a class much more centered on the meanings of particular texts, whose point of departure was most often philosophical rather than experiential. It was still a great class, but it didn’t engage the things I had hoped it would.

I love analyzing texts. That’s why I’m a philosophy major. But we’ve got to wonder what an education is when our school tells us that, beyond our major, what we need to become flourishing human beings is two humanities classes, two science classes, two social science classes and “skills requirements.” The absence of any mention of personal development on this list is noteworthy, and should give us pause.

But maybe Yale never meant to make us flourish, only to make us into brilliant scholars, successful careerists and hopefully, world changers. Our freshman orientation presents us with a series of lessons that do an admirable job of trying to prepare us, but in a way that mostly stays at the level of damage control, rather than dis-

cussing what life at Yale should look like. We have any number of peer counselors and liasons available, but they‘re only students.

We have mental health counselors, many of whom do really great work to keep us healthy, but somehow all this has become detached from what we’re supposed to be learning at Yale, from what our classes are supposed to be about. Are our classes just jobs, or can they be real places of nurture for us as people?

Some people say there’s no room for big questions in the liberal arts education because of secularization or political correctness.

Regardless of whether Yale asks these questions, though, we’ve got to. It’s time we bring these kinds of questions to the forefront, not just in “student life,” but in everything it means to be a Yalie. The big questions of life, about meaning, about God, about justice, aren’t going to go away, here or down the road. We’ve got to ask them. We’ve got to, because we’re worth it.

BRENDAN KOLB is a junior in Berkeley College. Contact him at brendan.kolb@yale.edu .

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wonder what sort of attributes the Yale Corporation is seeking in our next president. Expertise at fundraising? Necessarily. Leadership? Surely. Vision? Well, that is the nub of the question.

Vision rests on values and guides the politics of leadership.

It inspires the hard choices about what matters most in the aims of education. And it is unquantifiable, belonging instead to the realm of moral judgment and principled commitment.

Regrettably, we cannot know what members of the Yale Corporation expect concerning our next leader’s vision. For they have not made public their thoughts on this question. Perhaps they should do so, answering the same survey questions sent out to solicit student input. Then we would all have the information necessary to consider the Corporation’s project instead of just wondering. Now, the preferences of the Corporation remain shrouded, its assumptions unstated.

On this elusive question of vision, however, the words of a past Yale president, A. Whitney Griswold, are edifying: “The liberal arts are in retreat before the sciences and vocational studies of all sorts.”

It was 1953. As the Cold War intensified, the country was gripped by anxiety about global

rivalries. Yet Griswold resisted the turn to professional and technical education sweeping universities across the country. Writing in The Saturday Review, he pointed to the danger of devaluing the liberal arts and argued for the urgency of humanism.

At stake, he held, lay the very ability to know ourselves: “How may we know ourselves so that we may know our weakness as well as our strength; so that we may understand the relationship between our cultural responsibilities and the political and military objectives to which we are committed; so that we may proclaim the virtues of American life in the universal language of humanity?”

In answer to this fundamental question, Griswold posited that the understanding of the self, cultural responsibility and political power begins with humanistic inquiry as a foundation of democratic citizenship. “The question leads straight to the liberal arts,” he wrote, setting forth his vision of Yale’s civic purpose: “the art or studies becoming to a free man.”

For Griswold, then, the antidote to the perils of the Cold War lay in humanistic education. And in opposition to McCarthyism’s assault on civil liberty, he insisted on academic freedom as well as the moral and political significance of

the liberal arts.

Today, as national anxiety mounts about the end of the American Century and the flattening of the globe — and as Yale searches for its next president — Griswold’s reasoning is worth recalling.

One thing it surely leads us to ask is how Yale’s next president envisions the University’s presence abroad. So, too, it sharpens our worries that by venturing into Singapore, Yale has fashioned itself as a brand name ready-made for exportation to developing markets. It makes us wonder whether attaining a foothold — a sphere of influence — in burgeoning economies overrides the University’s commitment to free speech and thought that is the condition for knowing anything, not least for knowledge of ourselves and of our cultural and political responsibilities.

What troubled Griswold was the prospect of the liberal arts retreating before scientific and vocational education; now what should trouble us is the prospect of a new president committed to treating a Yale education as a commodity to be shipped overseas for the sake of revenue and international influence. In other words, Griswold’s point should make us conclude that Yale’s next president should not be driven by the race for global-

ization. Instead, he or she should have a vision for our university not trained on expansion — especially not into realms where liberty of speech and thought is restricted — or on a doubling down solely on scientific and technical education.

Perhaps the call for qualifications should begin: “Humanist Wanted” — someone aiming, as Griswold wrote, “to keep alive the pure flame of liberal learning.”

Such a president would see that Yale’s value is measured not by the number of institutions overseas bearing its name but by the nature of the civic and intellectual life it creates in New Haven. He or she would understand the urgency of challenging Yale students, as Yale College Dean Mary Miler explained at this year’s Freshman Assembly, to “look beyond the obvious … to look into the unknown … to leave the expectations of others behind.”

To do so, she argued, is to “discover new worlds.”

That project of discovery is where the vision of Yale’s next president ought to be directed, not at lending Yale’s name to repression abroad.

ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College.

Contact him at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

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CORRECTIONS WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19

Due to an editing error, a pull quote included with the article “Number of Conn. uninsured declines” was mistakenly attributed to City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04.

It should have been attributed to Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman.

The article “Golf teams tee off with strong performances“ mistakenly referred to the Macdonald Cup, a golf tournament at Yale, as the MacArthur Cup.

Eidelson’s ’12 youth resolution approved

BY NICOLE NAREA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Ward 1 Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12 stood before the Board of Aldermen during a Wednesday night meeting to spearhead two resolutions that would allocate resources to develop New Haven’s youth facilities and launch programs aiming to reinforce positive social norms among children and teens.

As chair of the board’s youth services committee, Eidelson proposed that the city’s engineering department allocate $200,000 to rehabilitate existing youth-serving public spaces, as well as plan and design new facilities.

She also submitted a resolution authorizing Mayor John DeStefano Jr. to apply for and accept a $250,000 grant from the state’s Judicial Branch at the beginning of next year that would create programs for youth job training, leadership, mentorship, mediation and violence prevention. The board unanimously approved both resolutions.

Eidelson called the resolutions “important steps forward” in addressing a “comprehensive youth agenda,” which the board unanimously defined as a “legislative priority” in January, she said. The initiatives promise to provide “ample opportunities” for teens to lead “healthy, safe productive lives and reinforce making good choices” by running rehabilitative programs, Eidelson wrote in the resolution.

The passage of a concrete fiscal plan for New Haven youth marks a victory for the board’s youth services committee, which met in early September to investigate an overhaul of existing programs and set goals for increasing job availability, after-school pro-

grams and nonprofit services.

Ward 17 Alderman Alphonse Paolillo Jr., the board’s majority leader, commended Eidelson for her leadership on the committee and expressed his hope for further cooperation in the process of allocating the funds. Eidelson collaborated on the resolutions with Ward 5 Alderman Jorge Perez and Ward 23 Alderwoman Tyisha Walker, a longtime advocate of youth issues in New Haven who urged her colleagues to support the initiatives during the meeting.

“These two items will help the city of New Haven provide safe spaces and programs for youth that will help them deal with the issues they face daily,” Walker said.

These two items will help the city of New Haven provide safe spaces and programs for youth.

TYISHA WALKER Ward 23 Alderwoman The resolutions also called for a second $500,000 grant from the state that would “strengthen and expand” youth violence prevention programs during the 2014–’15 fiscal year, Eidelson said.

One beneficiary of the grant for youth spaces is the Dixwell Community “Q” House, which will receive $40,000. Located on Dixwell Avenue, it fell into disrepair after being open for 80 years, but local youth petitioned to revive the center in January, the New Haven Register reported.

Contact NICOLE NAREA at nicole.narea@yale.edu .

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Ward 1 Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12, chair of the Board of Aldermen’s youth services committee, has led the committee’s efforts to develop plans for programs and services targeting city youth.

Officials announce GearUp scholarship

BY BEN PRAWDZIK AND MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTERS In his seventh-grade class at King-Robinson Interdistrict Magnet School, Kevin Miles’s favorite class is math, where he is learning how to do parentheses, division and fractions. He wants to go to college, and then play in the NBA. “This year I’m going to learn more about writing skills and math skills and I’m going to know bigger words for reading,” Miles said. “I don’t know what college to go to, but I heard it’s going to be a lot of money.”

On Wednesday, Miles learned about a program that puts him one step closer to his goals.

Before heading home to finish his homework and play some basketball, Miles and his classmates sat in an auditorium and listened to Mayor John DeStefano Jr., his principal and the President of Southern Connecticut State University talk about how they are going to get him through college.

Along with 3,000 other seventh graders across 12 different middle schools in New Haven, East Hartford and Waterbury, Miles will have the chance to participate in the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Program, or GearUp, a new college preparatory and scholarship initiative. DeStefano, assistant superintendent of schools Imma Canelli and other political and education officials announced the program today before the King-Robinson School’s seventh graders, many of whom would otherwise face daunting financial constraints when deciding whether to pursue higher education.

“How many of you plan to go to college?” asked SCSU multicultural affairs director Aaron Washington. Most students slowly raised their hands.

“Now, how many of you understand that it’s going to cost a lot of money to go to college?” he added. Everyone’s hands shot up.

Funded by a $31.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, GearUp will offer college preparatory services as well as scholarships to students who graduate from high school and are accepted to college. GearUp will be run jointly by the New Haven Public Schools, SCSU and the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education.

NEW HAVEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Seventh graders at a dozen middle schools in New Haven, Waterbury and East Hartford will benefit from a new scholarship and college preparatory program announced Wednesday called GearUp. “There is no better economic development or violence reduction strategy than investing in the education of our young people,” DeStefano said. “Our city cannot grow and our families will not thrive unless every student has the opportunity to succeed in college. GearUp is a powerful complement to New Haven Promise and the work of Promise Partnership and CollegeCorps to grow a college-going culture throughout New Haven.”

Of the $31.5 million grant, $15.5 million will be saved for college scholarships for students who graduate from high school, averaging out to around $4,200 or $4,500 dollars per student if every student currently enrolled in the program successfully completes it, according to New Haven public schools spokeswoman Abbe Smith.

Along the way, SCSU students will mentor and tutor students in the program at least once a week, said Sousan Arafeh, an SCSU professor and the co-principal investigator for GearUp. Students will also have access to a five-week “GearUp-New Haven summer program” and will be taken on college trips, she added.

The goal is to push children toward higher education from an earlier age.

“We talk about preparing children for college,” said Nadine Gannon, the principal of King-Robinson Interdistrict Magnet School.

“But when you talk about high school, it’s too late,” If students receive free tuition through the New Haven Promise, the Yale-funded college scholarship program launched in fall 2010, GearUp will fund room and board or textbook expenses, administrators said. GearUp scholarships will be accepted at all schools across the country, whereas New Haven Promise scholarships apply only to in-state institutions.

Funds from the Department of Education represent about 42 percent of the total program budget, and about 3 percent — $2.5 million — comes from private sources.

Contact BEN PRAWDZIK at benjamin.prawdzik@yale.edu and MONICA DISARE at monica.disare@yale.edu .

YCBA puts forth plan for conservation

BY MASON KROLL STAFF REPORTER Every day at the Yale Center for British Art, directors, curators and consultants act according to an architectural version of the Hippocratic Oath: The words, “First, do no harm,” take on a new meaning in the center’s efforts to conserve the building, the last major work by modernist architect Louis Kahn.

For the last decade, Peter Inskip and Stephen Gee, of Peter Inskip + Peter Jenkins Architects Ltd. in London, have worked on a conservation plan for the British Art Center.

Inskip delivered his first public lecture about the plan on Wednesday to a full house in the museum’s auditorium, delving into the history of the building and examining its vulnerabilities. In a reception following the lecture, he signed copies of the plan, immortalized in a 200-page book with photos, histories and suggestions about the building’s future.

In attendance was Carter Wiseman, a professor at the Yale School of Architecture and Kahn biographer, who commended the British Art Center’s commitment to conservation.

“We’ve gotten really good at preserving old buildings, but we don’t know as much about modern architecture,” Wiseman said.

“If you have a work of art like this, it needs to be cared for the way you would care for a Botticelli or a Palladio.”

Kahn is considered one of the most influential architects of the 20th century. He served as a professor at the Yale School of Architecture from 1947 to 1957, during which he designed his first major project — the Yale University Art Gallery, which was completed in 1951. After pioneering his unique modernist style around the globe, he returned to Yale to design the British Art Center, which was completed after his death in 1974.

Inskip and Gee’s conservation plan, published last November, was a first for the United States: While conservation of modern buildings is widely pursued in Australia and more recently in the United Kingdom, the idea is still a novelty in the United States, Inskip said. British Art Center Director Amy Meyers GRD ’85 said the center chose to design and publish its plan so that it would be available to others who are “stewarding” important buildings. Meyers sent a copy to the members of the Association of Art Museum Directors in the hopes that they too could see conservation as a potential mission for their museums.

In his lecture, Inskip described the nature of a conservation plan.

“A thorough understanding of the place allows an assessment of its cultural significance, the identification of where that significance is vulnerable and the formulation of conservation policies to protect that significance from those vulnerabilities,” Inskip said.

According to Meyers, the path to the conservation project began 25 years before she became the center’s director. The British Art Center opened to the public on the day Meyers was visiting the Yale University Gradu-

ate School for its American Studies Program.

She said she was immediately wowed by the center.

“I ended up deciding to come to Yale in large part because I was seduced by the place,” Meyers said. “The architecture itself invited that kind of thinking.”

After graduating, Meyers served as curator of the Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, Calif. There, she first met Inskip, who was leading an effort to conserve Stowe House in Buckinghamshire, U.K. She said the two became very close professional friends as well as “dear personal friends.”

After assuming the role of director of the British Art Center, she turned to Inskip and Gee to begin work on the conservation plan.

According to Wiseman, the building had been “slipping,” but Meyers recognized what was happening and strove to reverse the damage that had already been done.

If you’re a preservationist, you want things to be perfect. You don’t wash half a bathtub.

CARTER WISEMAN Professor, Yale School of Architecture Inskip and Gee traveled to New Haven three to four times a year, Inskip said, to assess the building’s vulnerabilities and explore its history. They began to assemble the plan with the help of a team of undergraduate and graduate architecture students and a British Art Center conservation committee that included British Art Center staff and Yale administrators and faculty.

Wiseman said conserving the center was especially difficult given the nature of Kahn’s architecture. Kahn believed that the marks of the maker should remain part of the work, and chips on the columns and holes in the floor remained as part of his architectural vision.

“If you’re a preservationist, you want things to be perfect. You don’t wash half a bathtub,” Wiseman said. “It’s important for preservationists to strike the right balance.

One of the key characteristics about Kahn’s work is that it was imperfect.”

The British Art Center is continually looking to the next project to begin work on. The center recently finished a conservation of the lower court, and it is currently converting an abandoned bathroom into a conservation lab equipped with X-rays and other tools to maintain the British Art Center’s collection of paintings.

In addition, the museum is in the midst of conserving an egress to the building through the auditorium. Meyers said the project will activate the entrance in the way Kahn envisioned for the first time in the center’s history.

To complete this work, the British Art Center has used the services of the New Haven-based Knight Architecture firm and

Turner Construction in Milford. George Knight ARC ’95 said he was humbled by the task to work on such a historic and beautiful building, work he considers the “experience of my career.” Lisa Mendes, senior project manager at Turner, described the unique nature of consulting on a project with this much direction.

“It’s not always that we have a construction plan like the one we have here,” Mendes said. “Our first approach to everything is to honor the conservation plan. We often refer to ourselves as the stewards of the building.”

Meyers said the next conservation project is the prints and drawings and the rare books and manuscripts departments, two areas that are in “very desperate need of attention.” The project will be rely on the principles of the conservation plan, she added.

Ultimately, though, the British Art Center has a looming task ahead of it. Inskip said the need to expand will be one of the toughest challenges the center will face in the next decade; in the past several years, the staff and the collections of both increased significantly. Offices meant for one employee currently serve three British Art Center staffers, and Inskip said he envisions a time when the center will think of structural expansion.

According to Inskip, Kahn made this very difficult. By excavating the lower court between the British Art Center and the Yale Repertory Theatre, rather than leaving it clear, Inskip said Kahn was telling future British Art Center directors not to expand the building’s footprint.

“The architect very cleverly screwed it up and made it impossible to build there,” Inskip said.

If anything, Inskip predicted the British Art Center can expand its basement and construct offices underneath the parking lot, although he said the idea of underground expansion was a bit bizarre for a building “dedicated to daylight.”

Inskip and Gee both serve as advisers on the British Art Center’s conservation committee. Gee said the conservation plan was a live document meant to be reviewed every 10 years rather than frozen in place.

The plan, which is available for purchase in the center gift shop, will soon be offered online as a free and public resource, according to Ellie Hughes, the head of the center’s exhibitions and publications.

“Everybody is engaged to some level in asking what we can do about digital publications,” Hughes said. “It seems like in a digital world we need to be offering this service to people in addition to the physical book.”

Meyers is proud that the British Art Center has been a leader in conservation in the United States, and she hopes that museums across the country will make use of the center’s conservation plan in their own projects. “It’s difficult, it’s time-consuming and it can be expensive, but the outcome is invaluable,” Meyers said. “We hope it will be helpful to those who steward structures of their own.”

Contact MASON KROLL at mason.kroll@yale.edu .

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“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

WINSTON CHURCHILL FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

Donation bump expected as Levin’s term ends FUNDRAISING FROM PAGE 1 Regarded by many as an expert fundraiser and builder, Levin has overseen major capital projects such as the renovations of the 12 residential colleges and construction of the $222 million new School of Management.

With nine months remaining in his presidency, Vice President for Development Joan O’Neill said she expects to see a final fundraising push that could bring donation levels above those typically before and after a campaign.

“We’re talking about how to leverage this last year of his presidency,” O’Neill said.

“Especially on how to focus on those relationships that he knows best and to see if there are some of them that can provide support for the ongoing needs of the University.”

The University received roughly $285 million per year in

the seven years before the silent phase began for Yale Tomorrow, the seven-year fundraising campaign that concluded on June 30, 2011. During the campaign, annual donations averaged $550 million, O’Neill said.

Yale raised some $350 million in the latest fiscal year, which ended June 30, and O’Neill says she expects that figure to stabilize around $400 million and $450 million per year until the next campaign.

From the start of his presidency, Levin was driven to the center of Yale’s fundraising efforts. He assumed office in the middle of the University’s $1.5 billion “… and for Yale” capital campaign — an initiative launched in 1992 by then-President Benno Schmidt that saw three presidents in three years.

“He jumped right in,” said Charles Pagnam, who served as Yale’s vice president for development from 1997-2004 after

helping to organize the “… and for Yale” campaign. “I think the advantage was that the development office had, along with the administration and the Corporation, put together a number of priorities for the campaign.”

[Levin] was very good in explaining the needs and explaining why he felt something should be a priority for Yale.

INGE REICHENBACH Former Vice President for Development Having the priorities of the campaign already set allowed Levin to focus on introducing himself to major donors, Pagnam said, aided by the Office of

Development and its existing donor relationships. The campaign went on to raise $1.7 billion — exceeding initial expectations by $200 million and setting a record for the largest capital campaign in higher education history.

When Levin’s successor takes office, he or she will also be able to turn to officials in the Office of Development and other administrators for assistance.

“Rick has been here for so long and these are big shoes to fill, but Rick isn’t the only one with relationships with donors,” O’Neill said.

Many major donations to the University in recent years were overseen by Inge Reichenbach, the former vice president for development who left office in June. O’Neill said the Development Office has already begun shifting responsibility for major donors to O’Neill and others in the office. Officials such as Pro-

Peers suggest weaker returns ENDOWMENT FROM PAGE 1 Sandy Baum, an economics professor at Skidmore College and a senior policy analyst at College Board, said Princeton’s and MIT’s numbers are not surprising given economic conditions during the latest fiscal year.

“There’s no reason to believe people would be getting 20 percent returns this year,” she said.

Roger Kaufman, a professor of economics at Smith College, said that schools like Princeton, Yale and MIT have allocated larger portions of their endowments to alternative investments — such as private equity, venture capital, commodities and hedge funds — in recent years. These types of assets did not have “stellar years” in the latest fiscal period, he said.

Kaufman also said administrators at universities seem to have lowered their expectations for long-term rates of return over the next decade.

“A lot of these alternatives had tremendous years back in the 1997-2007 period, and they don’t expect them to have these supernormal returns in the future,” Kaufman said.

The shift to alternative investments in higher education was largely driven by an investment model pioneered by Yale Chief Investment Officer David Swensen. The nontraditional strategy, which redefined the approach to institutional investing and is often termed the “Yale Model,” favors illiquid, alternative assets and takes a long-term view. It propelled the University to investment returns of near or above 20 percent between 2004 and 2007, and has been adopted by many of Yale’s peers.

There’s no reason to believe people would be getting 20 percent returns this year.

SANDY BAUM Senior policy analyst, College Board While the Investments Office allocates a large portion of its endowment to alternative asset classes, 15.7 percent of the endowment was invested in domestic and foreign equity

as of June 30, 2011. Indices that measure performance in these markets also suggest that fiscal year 2012 may have been a weaker year for Yale’s endowment.

The MSCI Emerging Markets Index, which measures equity performance in global emerging markets, saw roughly 24 percent growth in fiscal year 2011, compared to a 19 percent drop this past fiscal year. The MSCI EAFE Index, which measures equity performance in developed markets outside the United States and Canada, also went up 25 percent in fiscal year 2011 before falling 17 percent in fiscal year 2012.

With regard to the performance of United States equity, the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased by 28 percent in fiscal year 2011 but only by 2 percent in the year that ended June 30.

Endowments valued at over $1 billion returned an annual average of 6.9 percent over the past decade, according to last year’s NACUBO-Commonfund study.

Contact GAVAN GIDEON at gavan.gideon@yale.edu .

vost Peter Salovey, Yale College Dean Mary Miller, Art Gallery Director Jock Reynolds and Athletics Director Tom Beckett also work closely with donors.

Asked earlier this month whether he will remain involved with Yale’s fundraising after stepping down, Levin said he does not have specific plans for his post-Yale life other than writing on economics and higher education. He declined to comment on most fundraising issues on Wednesday, saying only that the administration is “in the process of formulating plans for this year.”

O’Neill said meeting top donors will be one of the first priorities of the next president.

Once those connections are established, she said, it will be up to the new president to define development goals and eventually incorporate those goals into the next fundraising campaign.

She added that the gaps between

campaigns tend to range from five to eight years, depending on donor fatigue and the time required for a new president to outline objectives.

“There’s no question the new president will have ideas and goals that they will want to accomplish, and the campaign will be part of achieving those, but the question will be when do they feel ready to do that,” she said. “Some of the goals will have been defined by the president and Corporation in Rick’s time, but it would be surprising not to have the new president to put their own flavor and their own emphasis on goals for the future.”

The Yale Tomorrow fundraising campaign officially launched in 2006 and raised $3.88 billion.

Contact TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu .

Door opened for lawsuit against DKE DKE CRASH FROM PAGE 1 sponsored the New York event, Ecker said.

The suit claims that the driver of the car, a Yale student who was also killed, had been sleepdeprived because of the fraternity’s ongoing “Hell Week,” which includes many mandatory initiation activities.

DKE National Executive Director Doug Lanpher said Wednesday afternoon that he had “not had a chance to react” because “this is all so sudden,” adding that the fraternity needs to consult its lawyers before commenting further.

Nick Daffin ’13, current president of Yale’s DKE chapter, said he could not address the lawsuit without first consulting with the DKE national office, but added that “our hearts and prayers go out to [the victims’] families and we still remember them every year.” DKE’s Yale chapter is currently serving the first year of a five-year ban from recruiting new members or holding events on campus, imposed after DKE pledges were caught shouting offensive chants on Old Campus in October 2010.

In addition to the lawsuit against the fraternity, Grass’s estate also sued the Connecticut Department of Transportation for poor road maintenance and two construction companies that allegedly knocked down a light pole while working on the stretch of highway, contributing to limited visibility. The family settled with the construction companies, and the cases against

the state were dismissed.

The fraternity, however, refused to settle and moved for the case to be dismissed, sending the case to the Connecticut Superior Court and eventually the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Ecker said if the jury rules in favor of the family, he expects the fraternity’s insurance to cover any damages, depending on the amount specified by the verdict. Still, he said he could not predict the outcome of the trial because “jurors in Connecticut are not necessarily overly generous.”

Brian Lew, a California-based personal injury and products liability attorney for the law firm Allen Flatt Ballidis & Leslie, said each trial in such cases is dependent on the specific details of the case, so it is hard to gauge the outcome.

In a separate 2005 lawsuit, the families of all of the crash victims filed a product liability suit against the company that manufactures the tractor-trailer involved in the crash, claiming that the driver could have avoided the crash if more lights were put on the truck. Ecker, who is familiar with the case but does not represent the families, said the trial for that lawsuit will likely occur next month.

Brett Smith ’12 and Eric Wenzel ’04, two survivors of the crash, both declined to comment.

Contact MADELINE MCMAHON at madeline.mcmahon@yale.edu .

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“You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.” HENRY KISSINGER FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE

Residents express concerns over Yale tree removal plan

BY AMANDA CHAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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City residents joined city and Yale officials at City Hall Wednesday night to discuss a Yale plan that would replace 18 trees.

Report recommends coastal wind turbines

BY KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG STAFF REPORTER Windy days on the Atlantic should be used for more than just sailing and flying kites, environmentalists say.

A report by the National Wildlife Federation released last week recommended the construction of offshore wind turbines along the coast of Connecticut and 13 other East Coast states. Currently, the United States does not have a single offshore wind turbine, but their construction could mean more jobs and cleaner energy for region, according to the report.

“The Atlantic Ocean is one of the best attainable renewable energy resources in the United States with the potential to create local jobs while reducing global warming pollution,” according to the report, coauthored by the NWF’s Catherina Bowes and Justin Allegro.

According to the report, over 1,300 gigawatts of energy generation potential have been identified off the Atlantic, and using even just a small part of this energy would generate hundreds of billions of dollars of economic activity, representing part of a solution for detrimental fossil fuel use and energy price volatility.

The NWF report estimates that Connecticut’s offshore wind resource is roughly 6.4 gigawatts within 50 nautical miles from the coast. This pales in comparison to New York’s 147.2 and North Car-

olina’s 297.5 gigawatt estimates, but could still mean new economic activity for the state.

The Sierra Club of Connecticut and the National Audubon Society both formally endorsed the NWF’s report. John Calandrelli, the program director for the Sierra Club of Connecticut, said that if this wind power were connected to the East Coast’s electrical grid, it could continuously power all the homes on the East Coast. Calandrelli added that the National Sierra Club has been in favor of wind turbines, including proposals for offshore wind turbines, for many years, on a sight-bysight basis.

Despite the predicted economic benefits of wind turbine construction, concerns range from the aesthetic to the environmental, such as their potential to interrupt established bird migration patterns, according to Patrick Commins, the director of bird conservation at Audubon Connecticut.

“There have been several on the ground impacts and air collisions between birds and wind turbines.

Large birds of prey that have the potential to be greatly affected by wind turbine construction, based on their migration patterns,” Commins said.

While Commins said that Audubon Connecticut does not take aesthetic worries into account, others feel they should be part of the debate about wind turbines. The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, for exam-

ple, formed in 2001 to oppose the Cape Wind Project, which would place wind turbines there. The group argues that the turbines would disrupt the area’s famed natural beauty.

Population density can also affect turbine construction. Calandrelli said heavily populated areas make turbine construction very difficult.

In the Long Island Sound, for example, heavy boat traffic would restrict the areas suitable for turbine placement, he said.

Students asked about their opinions about the prospect of wind turbines appearing off the Connecticut coast had mixed opinions. Emily Quint-Hoover ’15, is in full support of them, arguing that even if they are an eyesore to some, the environmental benefits are too great to pass up.

Connecticut resident Nathaniel Zelinsky ’13 countered that “[wind turbines] are both unsightly and inefficient.”

Connecticut has several cleanenergy initiatives in place already.

The state requires utility companies to secure at least 27 percent of their electricity from clean-energy sources. Connecticut is also a participant in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and has committed to issuing a joint request for proposals for renewable power contracts by 2013, according to the NWF report.

Contact KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG at kirsten.schnackenberg@yale.edu .

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY

A report issued by the National Wildlife Federation has given new life to the idea that wind turbines should be installed along the coast of Connecticut.

On Wednesday evening, New Haven officials, Yale officials and concerned city residents came together at City Hall in a public hearing to deliberate over the fate of 18 trees.

The meeting was the product of a situation designated by Connecticut state law, which states that whenever a city’s tree warden is planning to remove a tree, she must post a notice on it stating that intent and, if she receives any written objections to the removal, the city must hold a hearing at which residents can express their concerns.

At the meeting, Yale put forth its plan for the beautification of Prospect Street, which would require the replacement of Norway maples with scarlet oaks, and New Haven residents responded to the presentation with their opinions.

“This is Yale’s proposal,” said Christy Hass, New Haven’s tree warden and deputy director of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Trees. “The city has to decide if they’re going to allow it or not.”

As the tree warden, Hass will ultimately make this decision, and she must do so in the next three days under state law.

Alice Raucher, architect and planner of the Yale Office of Facilities, presented a modified proposal to hearing attendees.

Though the original plan involved replacing 18 Norway maples with 21 oaks, the proposal presented at the hearing scaled the changes back, calling for the replacement of seven of the maples with nine new oaks.

Raucher said Yale hopes to “improve the landscape along Prospect Street” as well as “address issues on Ashmun Street” with these changes. In addition, she said, Yale plans to build a curbed brownstone wall to form a planting bed along the sidewalk on Prospect, as well as install new pedestrian lights. Raucher added that the maples cur-

rently pose a tripping hazard because they have shallow, exposed roots.

Colleen Murphy-Dunning, the director of the Urban Resources Initiative, a nonprofit University initiative affiliated with the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, presented scientific findings about the maples for attendees to consider.

“Maple species are more likely to break in storms and have cavities than [other trees],” she said, alluding to research conducted by Jeff Ward, the chief scientist of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.

Not only are Norway maples an “invasive species” with “weak forks,” said MurphyDunning, their branches were among the most commonly found during the cleanup after Hurricane Irene last year and the tearing of Norway maple branches only leads to more internal decays and cavities. She added that in Ward’s assessment of each of the 18 maples on Prospect Street, many will need to be removed in the immediate or distant future.

After hearing Raucher’s and MurphyDunning’s presentations, New Haven residents and Yale students offered their views on the new proposal. Some felt that the revised plan offered a good compromise, as it would preserve some of the maples while allowing Yale to execute its beautification project. Anstress Farwell, president of the New Haven Urban Design League, said the proposal would make Prospect Street more comfortable and attractive to pedestrians.

But others lamented the loss of the trees’ aesthetic value. Fabian Drixler, a Yale history professor, said, “There is a beauty to a mature tree that cannot be replaced by the beauty of a youthful tree.”

If approved, the plan will take approximately two months to implement.

Contact AMANDA CHAN at amanda.chan@yale.edu .

Syrian activist tells tales of revolution

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Syrian activist Samar Yazbek advocated the fall of the Assad Regime on Wednesday during a speech that detailed her personal experience of the violent Syrian uprising.

BY ERIC XIAO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As the revolution in Syria continues to escalate, one Syrian journalist gave a personal account of the violence Wednesday night as she called for an end to the country’s current government.

Syrian author and activist Samar Yazbek spoke at the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies on Prospect Street about the Bashar Al-Assad regime in Syria as well as the progress made by the Syrian anti-government forces.

Before a crowd of roughly 25 people, Yazbek asserted that the Syrian government’s unnecessarily violent response to peaceful demonstrators sparked the revolution that grips the media’s attention today.

“The only solution for Syria … is the fall of the Bashar Al-Assad regime,” she said, according to a translator that relayed her speech from Arabic to English. Otherwise, she said, Syria will “drown in a sea of blood.”

Yazbek and her daughter fled from Syria in 2011 and are now exiled from the country.

She recounted how in early 2011, young students in Southern Syria began writing anti-government slogans on their school walls. The government’s forces “arrested these kids like they were criminals, and these kids were 11 or 12 years old,” she said. When the parents of these students asked for the release of their children, they too were treated in a “terrible, savage way” by the government. She described how she saw firsthand security forces harshly beating demonstrators on the street, even though the demonstrators were carrying flowers and olive branches as symbols of peace.

This level of brutality against nonviolent protesters drew widespread resentment toward the regime, she said, even from soldiers in the Syrian army.

Because the punishment for failure to

obey orders was death, she said countless soldiers fled the army and formed their own brigades in order to protect civilians.

“The [soldiers’] orders were to shoot the demonstrators, and many refused to follow the orders,” she said.

In discussing the revolution’s future, Yazbek highlighted what she referred to as “the real danger in Syria:” the growing number of Al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters in the Free Syrian Army. While most opponents of the current regime in Syria are rational and tolerant, she said, the relentless violence from the government has also prompted an increase in extremist combatants. Yazbek noted that these extremist fighters are not welcome in the Free Syrian Army, but there is a concern that their numbers may grow to more dangerous levels.

In response to a question about the potential for Western intervention in Syria, Yazbek said the Free Syrian Army does not need the support of ground troops from the West, pointing to the “great victories” that the Free Syrian Army has achieved on land. Still, she urged for the establishment of a no-fly zone in order to prevent the Syrian Air Force from attacking the revolutionaries, who have no air-based military power themselves.

Five audience members interviewed all said they were impressed by Yazbek’s dedication to the revolutionary cause, especially since she comes from an upper-class family in Syria. Tiraana Bains ’15 called the talk “illuminating,” saying that it was particularly interesting because Yazbek has firsthand experience with the events in Syria.

Yazbek chronicled her memories of the revolution in her 2012 book, “A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution.”

Contact ERIC XIAO at eric.xiao@yale.edu .

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Chipotle Mexican Grill Chipotle Mexican Grill is a restaurant chain known for its large burritos and use of natural ingredients. The company’s mission statement, “Food with Integrity” highlights its efforts in using naturally-raised meat — Chipotle serves more than any other restaurant chain.

At last, New Haven’s Chipotle to become reality CHIPOTLE FROM PAGE 1 Haven’s population growth, strong education and biomedical sector, and “cosmopolitan feel” as factors that attract new businesses.

UP manages a portfolio of over 100 retail tenants and 500 residential holdings in New Haven, but the new Chipotle location is not among them.

PMC Properties, a real estate management company based out of Philadelphia, is the storefront’s owner. Rider said the site is a good location for Chipotle, which has been expanding at a rate of approximately 150 restaurants annually for the past several years.

“My guess is that they are expanding into trade areas which have attractive demographics but require a lower-cost model than Chipotle’s traditional restaurant openings,” Rider said. “900 Chapel … is a good location for them, between the Gateway and Yale campuses, and it’s good for that section of Chapel Street to have high-traffic use.”

Student reaction to the news was highly positive — 14 students interviewed all said they were excited for New Haven to have a Chipotle downtown.

“I’m thrilled about [Chipotle] coming close to campus,” said Caroline Bank ’13. “I wrote to them myself last year to try and get them to open a New Haven restaurant.”

Matthew Townsend ’15 said he was excited that Chipotle could serve as an alternative to dining halls some nights.

“Chipotle will be great for when Yale Dining serves General Tso’s tofu and no grilled chicken,” Townsend said. “It’ll be awesome to have one nearby — it’s such a pain to get to the one [in Milford.]”

Chipotle was founded in 1993 and has 1,316 locations across the United States.

Monica Disare contributed reporting.

Contact BEN PRAWDZIK at benjamin.prawdzik@yale.edu .

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Chipotle is coming to 900 Chapel St. — news that broke when passersby noticed a construction permit outside and was confirmed via a company statement on Twitter Thursday.

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 5:00 PM “The Suppressed Memoirs of Mable Dodge Luhan: Sex, Syphilis, and Psychoanalysis in the Making of Modern American Culture.” Biographer and cultural critic Lois Rudnick will speak about her book on Mabel Dodge Luhan, a 20th-century writer and patron of the arts whose papers were restricted until 12 years ago. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), room 117.

8:00 PM “The Fatal Eggs.” Adapted by Dustin Wills DRA ’14 and Ilya Khodosh DRA ’14 from “The Fatal Eggs” by Mikhail Bulgakov, a Russian writer and playwright who died in 1940. Directed by Wills.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 12:00 PM “Relics: Travel in Nature’s Time Machine.”

Entomologist Piotr Naskracki will give this Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies/Environmental Sciences Center Seminar.

A light lunch will be provided. Class of 1954 Environmental Sciences Center (21 Sachem St.), room 110.

4:00 PM “The Intersection of International Relations Scholarship and Policymaking.” University of Virginia politics professor and Security Studies editor-in-chief John M. Owen IV, Jackson Institute senior fellow Alexander Evans and political science assistant professor Jessica Chen Weiss will speak at this panel discussion celebrating the release of the Yale Journal of International Affairs’ fall 2012 scholars’ forum issue. Reception to follow. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), room 101.

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Cash prizes for wins and chess gear for draws. Old Campus.

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Obama boosted by upbeat housing reports, new polls show

BY DAVID ESPO ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Fresh signs of a national housing rebound and growing support in public opinion polls boosted President Barack Obama’s bid for a new term in the White House on Wednesday as Republican rival Mitt Romney struggled to quell his video controversy.

The challenger’s attempts to get his campaign back on track ran into new difficulty in the form of criticism from rank-and-file Republicans concerned about their own election prospects in the fall.

“I have a very different view

of the world,” said appointed Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada, taking issue with Romney’s dismissive comments about the 47 percent of all Americans who pay no income taxes. Separately, Senate GOP leaders avoided answering questions about their presidential candidate at a news conference in the Capitol.

After days of virtually nonstop political damage control on issues foreign and domestic, Romney told an audience at an Atlanta fundraiser: “The question of this campaign is not who cares about the poor and the middle class. I do. He (Obama) does.

The question is who can help the poor and the middle class. I can.

He can’t.”

The former Massachusetts governor spoke about 48 hours after a video emerged that showed him telling donors last May that as a candidate for the White House, “my job is not to worry about” the millions of Americans who don’t earn enough to pay income taxes.

Obama spent the day in the White House, a rarity in a race with less than seven weeks yet to run. He invited democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar to the Oval Office, a chat between two Nobel Peace Prize winners.

Romney raised campaign cash in Georgia in advance of an eve-

ning appearance in battleground Florida, his first before a public audience since the emergence of the videotape. Under pressure from fellow Republicans to campaign more extensively, he was considering adding at least one appearance to a light weekend schedule, officials said.

In a campaign dominated all year by the sluggish economy, the government said construction of single-family homes jumped to the highest rate in more than two years. Separately, the National Association of Realtors reported that home sales rose last month to the highest level since May 2010.

Real estate has been among the

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President Barack Obama meets with Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in the Oval Office of the White House.

Tax penalty to hit nearly 6M uninsured

BY RICARD ALONSO-ZALDIVAR ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Nearly 6 million Americans - significantly more than first estimated- will face a tax penalty under President Barack Obama’s health overhaul for not getting insurance, congressional analysts said Wednesday. Most would be in the middle class.

The new estimate amounts to an inconvenient fact for the administration, a reminder of what critics see as broken promises.

The numbers from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office are 50 percent higher than a previous projection by the same office in 2010, shortly after the law passed. The earlier estimate found 4 million people would be affected in 2016, when the penalty is fully in effect.

That’s still only a sliver of the population, given that more than 150 million people currently are covered by employer plans. Nonetheless, in his first campaign for the White House, Obama pledged not to raise taxes on individuals making less than $200,000 a year and couples making less than $250,000.

And the budget office analysis found that nearly 80 percent of those who’ll face the penalty would be making up to or less than five times the federal poverty level. Currently that would

work out to $55,850 or less for an individual and $115,250 or less for a family of four.

Average penalty: about $1,200 in 2016.

“The bad news and broken promises from Obamacare just keep piling up,” said Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who wants to repeal the law.

Starting in 2014, virtually every legal resident of the U.S. will be required to carry health insurance or face a tax penalty, with exemptions for financial hardship, religious objections and certain other circumstances.

Most people will not have to worry about the requirement since they already have coverage through employers, government programs like Medicare or by buying their own policies.

A spokeswoman for the Obama administration said 98 percent of Americans will not be affected by the tax penalty - and suggested that those who will be should face up to their civic responsibilities.

“This (analysis) doesn’t change the basic fact that the individual responsibility policy will only affect people who can afford health care but choose not to buy it,” said Erin Shields Britt of the Health and Human Services Department. “We’re no longer going to subsidize the care of those who can afford to buy insurance but make a choice not to buy it.”

slowest sectors of the economy to recover from the national downturn of 2008. The administration has struggled to reverse a decline in home values that left millions who managed to avoid foreclosure owing more on their mortgages than their homes are worth.

There was downbeat news, as well, in an economy struggling to create jobs. State officials in Michigan reported the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in August rose by fourtenths of a percent to 9.4 percent, well above the national average of 8.1 percent. Romney grew up in Michigan, but he has yet to contest it seriously in his quest for the White House.

A new AP-GfK poll — taken before the Romney video was revealed — put Obama’s overall approval rating among votingage adults at 56 percent. That was above 50 percent for the first time since May, and at its highest level since the death of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden more than a year ago.

Among likely voters, however, the race was a statistical tie, with Obama at 47 percent and Romney at 46 percent.

The two were also tied statistically when it came to handling the economy and the federal deficit, while the president was preferred on issues of protecting the country, handling health care and understanding the problems of “people like you.” On a question of personal credibility, 50 percent of likely voters said Obama more often says what he really believes, while 42 percent said that applied to Romney.

At the same time, 61 percent of likely voters described the economy as poor, and only 22 percent described it as good more than 3 1/2 years after Obama took office, another indication of the challenges he faces as he bids for a

new term in a time of long-term unemployment over 8 percent nationally.

Other new surveys suggested growing support for Obama in the wake of back-to-back national political conventions and Romney’s struggle last week to explain an erroneous statement issued at a time of demonstrations — one of them deadly — at U.S. diplomatic posts in the Middle East.

An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll taken Sept. 12-16 put the president’s lead among likely voters at 50-44 percent nationwide.

State surveys by Quinnipiac University, The New York Times and CBS News showed Obama at over 50 percent support among likely voters in Virginia, with 13 electoral votes, and Wisconsin, with 10. Obama carried Wisconsin handily four years ago, but Romney recently signaled he was hoping to make it competitive.

The two men were in a statistical tie in Colorado, which has 9 electoral votes, in surveys conducted between Sept. 11 and 17.

A Washington Post poll also showed Obama with a lead in Virginia.

All the surveys were taken before the flap erupted over Romney’s “47 percent” remarks.

Taken together, they showed a highly competitive race as Obama and Romney pursue the 270 electoral votes needed for victory, although with the president in a stronger position than before the two political conventions and with the economy still the dominant issue.

“This is our election to lose,” maintained Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. “There’s a reason no president has ever been elected with economic numbers like this.

If Obama wins, he’ll be rewriting political history.”

Romney’s comments ripple across electorate

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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney participates in a Univision “Meet the Candidates” forum in Coral Gables, Fla.

BY THOMAS BEAUMONT ASSOCIATED PRESS DES MOINES, Iowa — Mitt Romney’s off-handed comment that as a candidate he doesn’t worry about the 47 percent of Americans who pay no income taxes has quickly entered the bloodstream in the presidential campaign’s most hardfought states.

His comment, in a video revealed this week, is prompting expressions of shock - but also shrugs - from Nevada to Florida to New Hampshire and the handful of

battleground states in between.

Will it sway an election expected to be close?

There was much discussion in the relatively few states that are still considered competitive, likely to decide the race.

Here, as elsewhere, the question was whether Romney was showing himself to be insensitive or merely delivering the hard truth a nation at an economic crossroads must face.

People’s answers could make an Election Day difference in states where the race is tight.

“It sounds like he’s leaving out half of America, if you ask me,” said Gary Gabriel, an independent from suburban Columbus, Ohio, who decided in light of Romney’s comments to support President Barack Obama.

But the remarks also reaffirmed the opinions of some Romney supporters.

“I worry a lot about the society we’re turning into, more of an entitlement mentality,” said Randy Schumaker, a Denver-area IT manager.

It all underscored the campaign’s focus on the economy. And it stoked deeper questions about voters’ expectations about the government’s role in Americans’ daily lives.

Outrage. Nodding approval. Both followed Romney’s contention that 47 percent of Americans support Obama and that they “are dependent upon government” and “believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them.”

In a Gallup poll taken Tuesday, about a third of the surveyed registered voters said they would be less likely to support Romney in light of the remarks, But more said the comments would not affect their votes. And most voters have already made up their minds on whom they will support, according to this and other surveys.

More voter voices: “He does not have that empathy that says he really cares,” said Michael Symes from the economically hard-hit Las Vegas area.

Student Morgan Palmer said he needs his college loan to get through Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Va. But he doesn’t consider himself a government dependent. “I was really shocked,” the 18-year-old freshman from Chantilly, Va., said. “This is a long-term investment, not short-term dependency.”

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Charlie Hebdo A provocative, satirical weekly magazine, Charlie Hebdo publishes cartoons, reports, polemics and jokes. The publication has a strong left-wing, anarchist slant and has recently published nude caricatures of the the Prophet Mohammed.

New French cartoons inflame prophet film tensions

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Supporters of Pakistani religious party Jamaat-e-Islami chant slogans during a demonstration, in Pakistan on Friday, Sept. 14, as part of anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

BY LORI HINNANT AND GREG KELLER ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — A French magazine published vulgar caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad on Wednesday, inflaming global tensions over a movie insulting to Islam and prompting France to step up security at its embassies.

The move by the provocative weekly Charlie Hebdo followed days of violent protests from Asia to Africa against the U.S.-produced film “Innocence of Muslims” and turned France into a potential target of Muslim rage. Up to now, American government sites have drawn the most ire.

Violence linked to the amateurish movie, which portrays the prophet as a fraud, a womanizer and a child molester, has killed at least 30 people in seven countries, including the American ambassador to Libya.

On Wednesday, several hundred lawyers protesting the movie forced their way into an area in Pakistan’s capital that houses the U.S. Embassy and other foreign missions.

The United States temporarily closed its consulate in an Indonesian city because of similar demonstra-

tions and hundreds protested the film in Sri Lanka’s capital, burning effigies of President Barack Obama.

The French government ordered embassies and schools abroad to close on Friday, the Muslim holy day, as a precautionary measure. It ordered the immediate closure of the French Embassy and the French school in Tunisia, which saw deadly filmrelated protests at the U.S. Embassy on Friday.

The French Foreign Ministry issued a travel warning Wednesday urging French citizens in the Muslim world to exercise “the greatest vigilance,” avoiding public gatherings and “sensitive buildings” such as those representing the West or religious sites.

At the same time, the country - which has western Europe’s largest Muslim population - plunged into a new debate over the limits of free speech in a modern democracy.

France’s prime minister said freedom of expression is guaranteed, but cautioned that it “should be exercised with responsibility and respect.”

Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius warned that Charlie Hebdo could be throwing “oil on the fire,” but said it’s up to the courts to decide whether the magazine went too far.

The magazine’s crude cartoons played off the film

and ridiculed the violent reaction to it. Riot police took up positions outside the offices of the magazine, which was firebombed last year after it released an edition that mocked radical Islam.

Charlie Hebdo’s chief editor, who goes by the name of Charb and has been under police protection for a year, defended the cartoons.

“Muhammad isn’t sacred to me,” he said in an interview at the weekly’s offices on the northeast edge of Paris. “I don’t blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings. I live under French law; I don’t live under Quranic law.”

Charb said he had no regrets and felt no responsibility for any violence.

“I’m not the one going into the streets with stones and Kalashnikovs,” he said. “We’ve had 1,000 issues and only three problems, all after front pages about radical Islam.”

Government authorities and Muslim leaders urged calm.

“This is a disgraceful and hateful, useless and stupid provocation,” Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Grand Paris Mosque, told The Associated Press. “We are not Pavlov’s animals to react at each insult.”

A small-circulation weekly, Charlie Hebdo often

Extremists on front lines in Syria

BY PAUL SCHEMM ASSOCIATED PRESS TEL RIFAAT, Syria — The bearded gunmen who surrounded the car full of foreign journalists in a northern Syrian village were clearly not Syrians. A heavyset man in a brown gown stepped forward, announced he was Iraqi and fingered through the American passport he had confiscated.

“We know all American journalists are spies. Now tell us what you are doing here and who you are spying for,” he said in English before going on to accuse the U.S. of the destruction of Iraq and Afghanistan.

“I really want to cut your head off right now,” he added, telling his men, many of whom appeared to have North African accents, that this American kills Muslims.

With the intervention of nearby villagers, the confrontation eventually was defused. But it underscored the unpredictable element that foreign fighters bring to the Syrian conflict.

Most of those fighting the regime of President Bashar Assad are ordinary Syrians and soldiers who have defected, having become fed up with the authoritarian government, analysts say. But increasingly, foreign fighters and those adhering to an extremist Islamist ideology are turning up on the front lines. The rebels are trying to play down their influence for fear of alienating Western support, but as the 18-month-old fight grinds on, the influence of these extremists is set to grow.

On Monday, a U.N. panel reported a rise in the number of foreign fighters in the conflict and warned that it could radicalize the rebellion.

The Syrian government has always blamed the uprising on foreign terrorists, despite months of peaceful protests by ordinary citizens that only turned violent

after repeated attacks by security forces.

The transformation of the conflict into an open war has given an opening to the foreign fighters and extremists.

Talk about the role of foreign jihadists in the Syrian civil war began in earnest, however, with the rise in suicide bombings. U.S. National Director of Intelligence James Clapper said in February that those attacks “bore the earmarks” of the jihadists in neighboring Iraq.

Having a beard is not a symbol of extremists. It just means we’re religious, like a woman wearing a headscarf or a Christian wearing a cross.

ABDEL MALIK ATASSI Syrian rebel Rebel commanders are quick to dismiss the role of the foreign fighters and religious extremists, describing their numbers as few and their contribution as paltry.

Col. Abdel-Jabbar Aqidi, a top rebel commander for the Aleppo area, told The Associated Press there were maybe 500 jihadis involved in the battle for Aleppo, while a report from the Quilliam Foundation, a London-based think tank studying extremism, estimated a total of 1,2001,500 foreign fighters in all of Syria.

Other commanders estimated that at most, jihadis, whether local or foreign, made up no more than 10 percent of the fighters.

While this is a small amount compared with the thousands of rebels estimated to

be battling the regime, Peter Harling of the International Crisis Group warns that the religious extremists will have an influence on the rebellion.

“I think numbers are irrelevant,” he said, adding that the extremists are a “very important phenomenon in many ways.

Their presence is very divisive, whether there are many or not.”

“They are certainly visible, and this increasingly shapes the complexion of the opposition in ways that are not negligible,” Harling said.

Reflecting their extreme sensitivity to the topic, the media center on the SyrianTurkish border investigated and questioned any journalists they discovered who had written about foreign fighters in Syria.

“My brother died in this revolution.

This revolution means everything to me, and if the world thinks that al-Qaida is involved, it is finished,” said Nader, a young rebel with the media center who declined to give his last name.

The media center investigated and questioned any journalists they discovered who had written about foreign fighters being involved in the rebellion.

Most of the rebels fighting in the north come from the countryside and have always been more traditional and religious than the more cosmopolitan urbanites of Aleppo.

Rebels often wear the beards associated with religious Muslims and pepper their conversations with references to their faith, but that does not necessarily mean they subscribe to ultraconservative views.

“Having a beard is not a symbol of extremists. It just means we’re religious, like a woman wearing a headscarf or a Christian wearing a cross,” said Abdel Malik Atassi, a young rebel in the town of Marea, as he gestured to his bearded comrades.

draws attention for ridiculing sensitivity around the Prophet Muhammad, and an investigation into the firebombing of its offices last year is still open. The magazine posted a statement online saying its website had been hacked.

Abdallah Zekri, president of the Paris-based AntiIslamophobia Observatory, said his group is considering filing a lawsuit against the magazine.

“People want to create trouble in France,” he said.

“Charlie Hebdo wants to make money on the backs of Muslims.”

Charlie Hebdo was acquitted in 2008 by a Paris appeals court of “publicly abusing a group of people because of their religion” following a complaint by Muslim associations.

Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said organizers of a demonstration planned for Saturday against the “Innocence of Muslims” won’t receive police authorization. Paris prosecutors have opened an investigation into an unauthorized protest last Saturday around the U.S. Embassy that drew about 150 people and led to scores of arrests.

The debate about the limits of free speech spread to neighboring Germany, where Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle spoke on the topic.

Doubts on Harvard claim of ‘Jesus’ wife’ papyrus

BY NICOLE WINFIELD ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME — Is a scrap of papyrus suggesting that Jesus had a wife authentic?

Scholars on Wednesday questioned the much-publicized discovery by a Harvard scholar that a 4th century fragment of papyrus provided the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus was married.

And experts in the illicit antiquities trade also wondered about the motive of the fragment’s anonymous owner, noting that the document’s value has likely increased amid the publicity of the still-unproven find.

Karen King, a professor of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School, announced the finding Tuesday at an international congress on Coptic studies in Rome. The text, written in Coptic and probably translated from a 2nd century Greek text, contains a dialogue in which Jesus refers to “my wife,” whom he identifies as Mary.

King’s paper, and the frontpage attention it received in some U.S. newspapers that got advance word about it, was a hot topic of conversation Wednesday at the conference.

Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was unmarried, although there is no reliable historical evidence to support

that, King said. Any evidence pointing to whether Jesus was married or had a female disciple could have ripple effects in current debates over the role of women in the church.

Stephen Emmel, a professor of Coptology at the University of Muenster who was on the international advisory panel that reviewed the 2006 discovery of the Gospel of Judas, said the text accurately quotes Jesus as saying “my wife.” But he questioned whether the document was authentic.

“There’s something about this fragment in its appearance and also in the grammar of the Coptic that strikes me as being not completely convincing somehow,” he said in an interview on the sidelines of the conference.

Another participant at the congress, Alin Suciu, a papyrologist at the University of Hamburg, was more blunt.

“I would say it’s a forgery. The script doesn’t look authentic” when compared to other samples of Coptic papyrus script dated to the 4th century, he said.

King acknowledged Wednesday that questions remain about the fragment, and she welcomed the feedback from her colleagues. She said she planned to subject the document to ink tests to determine if the chemical components match those used in antiquity.

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BY MATTHEW ROSENSPIRE STAFF WRITER Cornell should significantly increase its payment to the City of Ithaca to help the city reduce its $3-million budget deficit, Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 said at a public budget meeting Monday.

“I think the University should pay far more than the one and a quarter million dollars they pay now,” Myrick said. “If Cornell were fully taxed, it would pay $30 million a year. I don’t think that the University should pay that much or even close to it, but it needs to be more if we’re going to be successful as a city and if Cornell is going to be successful as a university.”

City finances are under increasing pressure from rising pension obligations and stagnant or falling state and federal aid. Attempts to close the deficit are also complicated by Cornell University’s tax-exempt status, according to Myrick.

I think the University should pay far more than the one and a quarter million dollars they pay now.

SVANTE MYRICK Mayor, Ithaca, NY Sixty percent of the assessed value in the city is tax exempt, and Cornell owns 89 percent of that tax-exempt land, Myrick said. The potential tax value of this land exceeds the $20 million in property taxes collected from the rest of the city, according to documents released by the City of Ithaca.

While the University contributes $1.2 million to city coffers each year under a Memorandum of Understanding, or agreement made with the city, Myrick said he would like to see the amount rise to $3 million in order to better cover the burdens the University imposes

on city infrastructure, such as increased maintenance of roads and bridges that traffic necessitates.

The large amount of tax exempt land in the city is also related to another issue that Myrick said affects the city’s budget: state aid. Myrick said he wants New York State to change the formula by which revenues from the state income tax are distributed to its cities to include the amount of tax-exempt land within a city.

New York State has also placed additional pressure on the city’s budget through its management of the state and local pension system.

According to Myrick, the city’s pension costs have increased 300 percent annually for five years.

These increases, Myrick said, were necessary in order to cover shortfalls in the state’s pension plan. According to Myrick, the New York State and Local Retirement System — which administers the city’s pension plans — assumed that the markets in which the plan invested were safe and thus stopped asking for employee contributions. This action undermined the solvency of the plan when the markets crashed.

To a lesser degree, the city is also suffering from the expiration of money provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus package, according to Myrick.

“The stimulus helped us save jobs and complete much needed infrastructure projects, but while the infrastructure will be with us for decades, the job funding has evaporated,” he said.

The city has also taken steps to save money outside of the budgeting process as well. The city has offered retirement incentives in order to reduce payrolls and has refinanced its debt, which Myrick said will save the city $700,000 over the next 10 years.

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BY AMANDA YOUNG STAFF WRITER A new transfer term policy will limit the number of students permitted to participate in a particular transfer program to an average of five and will require all interested students to submit applications, according to Committee on Instruction Chair Hakan Tell.

The COI implemented changes to the College’s policy to ensure that transfer programs are academically rigorous and fulfill individual student needs not met at the College, he said.

Former COI chair and psychology professor Catherine Cramer said that the committee decided to review the transfer term policy after the Office of the Registrar noticed an increase in the number of students — over 100 in recent years — pursuing transfer terms.

“We are trying to do two things — one is to encourage students to be thoughtful about the way transfer terms enhance their education, and the second is to be clear about what are programs associated with Dartmouth and what are not,” she said.

Tell said that most students’ academic needs can be satisfied through Dartmouth’s curriculum and the College’s off-campus programs and exchange offerings.

“When you go outside of all of those frameworks, we want to make sure you go for academic reasons,” he said. “In the past, we have seen that there are up to 60 or 70 students going on some of these transfer terms where it seems that the decision-making process has more to do with social concerns rather than academic concerns.”

Cramer said that the COI began reviewing transfer terms in fall 2011, and the Registrar updated its policies on its website in spring

2012. The committee did not consider safety or financial concerns in changing the policy.

T h e subcommittee reviewing student applications will include Tell, Registrar Meredith Braz and a representative from the Committee on OffCampus Activities, Tell said.

The number of students allowed to attend a particular transfer term is “not written in stone,” he said. However, the committee chose to set the cap at five to inform students that participating in a transfer term should be an individual decision.

DARTMOUTH

I don’t know what I would have done in Sydney with only four other kids that I knew.

MAHALA PAGAN Dartmouth student “I have a hard time thinking that there would be 20 students at Dartmouth that have compelling academic reasons to go on the same program to the same place and that we don’t offer courses through our offerings that satisfy their academic needs,” he said.

Mahala Pagan ’14 completed a transfer term at the University of Sydney during Winter term with approximately 25 other Dartmouth students, including some of her friends. Pagan said that

traveling with familiar students provided her a sense of camaraderie and safety.

“I don’t know what I would have done in Sydney with only four other kids that I knew,” she said. “When you are going out at night at these places, you want to be out with a few friends.”

Rennie Song ’15, who is applying to study at the University of Otago or the University of Sydney next term, said she would be concerned about traveling in a foreign country with only several other Dartmouth students, particularly given that at least 15 students embark together on the College’s foreign study programs.

“I feel like students would rather not study abroad at all and not be able to take advantage of such an amazing experience rather than be amongst four of their peers in a completely foreign location,” she said.

Concerned that she and other students would not be able to attend their proposed transfer term, Song created and circulated a student petition on Facebook asking the College to postpone and potentially eliminate its policy, she said. As of press time, 266 students had signed the petition.

“It’s ridiculous that they would put that in place without telling us at least months in advance,” she said.

Song is a member of The Dartmouth Business Staff.

French and Italian department chair Graziella Parati said she supports the new policy because the focus of transfer terms should be on an individual’s learning and the exploration of a new location.

“A large group could interpret the time abroad as a group vacation that will not engender interaction with a different culture,” she said.

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NHL prepares for lockout The NHL took steps on Wednesday in preparation for the lockout, which started on Sept. 15, by calling off all preseason games until the end of September. Additionally, the league has cut the pay and work hours for many employees. The captain of the Washington Capitals, Alex Ovechkin, has signed to play hockey in Europe with the Dynamo Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League.

Elis dominate Albany

Williams makes early impact WILLIAMS FROM PAGE 12

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Outside hitter Mollie Rogers ’15 led the Bulldogs offensively with a total of 12 kills against Albany.

VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 12 ting percentage.

It looked like it might be a closely contested match after the first set. Following a kill from Albany’s Gabby Whitworth midway through the set, the Bulldogs led just 17–16. But an Albany service error sparked a Yale surge.

Captain and middle blocker Haley Wessels ’13 notched three kills, including the final one of

the set, and Yale closed Albany out, 25–19 result.

Yale did not look back after that. In both the second and third sets the team took early 7–3 leads and led the rest of the way for 25–14 and 25–11 victories. Libero Maddie Rudnick ’15 said that the success of the first set set the stage for the rest of the game.

“We had more confidence after the first set,” she said. “Sometimes we let down a bit but we

just pushed even harder tonight throughout the second and third sets.”

The Bulldogs will begin their conference schedule on the road this weekend when they travel to Brown for a 2 p.m. match on Saturday.

Contact KEVIN KUCHARSKI at kevin.kucharski@yale.edu .

Sandquist said it was his confidence that has been the most impressive.

“From the get-go you could tell that he had some leadership qualities. He took control of the offense,” Sandquist said.

Williams’ leadership ability has also caught the eye of head coach Tony Reno. It was one reason that Reno decided to name Williams the starter against Georgetown over the more experienced John Whitelaw ’14, who quit the team in the wake of that decision.

Reno added that Williams’ attitude does not fluctuate with his play, allowing him to stay in control despite his inexperience. “[Williams] managed the game pretty well,” Reno said after Saturday’s victory. “He made a few mistakes, but the key with Eric was that he made the mistakes but he kept playing. For a young guy to have some negative experiences during the game, but to not change his demeanor or who he was — he just kept playing.”

Williams credited his level-headedness on the field to his brother Scott Williams ’13 and his father, Larry Williams.

Larry Williams played football at the University of Notre Dame before going on to be an offensive lineman in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns, San Diego Chargers, New Orleans Saints and New England Patriots.

“He really didn’t force us to play football at all,” Williams said of his father. “He definitely did serve as our mentor once we started playing football. We listened to him in terms of how to get better.”

Their father’s advice must have worked, because Eric is the third Williams son to don the blue and white. Scott Williams is a linebacker and Sean Williams ’11 was a defensive end for the Elis.

Eric said the biggest advantage to having an older brother on the team has been the advice given to him on how to manage his schoolwork. He added that watching his oldest brother play at Yale is what inspired him to come to Yale.

His brothers’ influence, combined with academic reasons, are what led Eric to turn down scholarships from the University of Cincinnati and the University of Toledo.

“I was really interested in my academic career,” Eric said. “I know Yale offers a way better opportunity in that realm than Cincy or Toledo could.”

Sandquist added that having a brother on the team helped the younger Williams acquaint himself with the team.

Eric is no stranger to meeting new team-

Esparza talks women in boxing OLYMPICS FROM PAGE 12 Library’s International Room on Wednesday to hear Esparza speak as a kickoff for Yale’s Latino Heritage Month. During the hour-long discussion, moderated by La Casa Cultural Director and Assistant Dean of Yale College Rosalinda Garcia, Esparza discussed her difficulties joining a sport dominated by men, her Olympic experience and her drive to take the Gold next time.

Garcia said she hoped Esparza’s determination could set an example for Latino students at Yale.

“I want for our students to be inspired by other Latinos,” Garcia said. “There’s so much in the media right now about Latinos, and I think we’re so often portrayed as a problem … and I want to highlight the Latinos that have really worked hard and accomplished a lot.”

Esparza grew up around boxing. Her family watched the sport at home, and her father originally encouraged her three brothers to fight. In order to convince her father to let her box as well, Esparza said she agreed to take her youngest brother to the gym if she could take lessons of her own. She began at age 11.

But convincing her father was not her last battle before she entered the ring. It took two months before she could persuade her preferred trainer to work with her, and she continued to face discrimination in the gym, she added.

“I get to the gym, and it’s nothing but guys,” Esparza said.

“I had to take a lot from a lot of [them]. I’m Hispanic … I got a lot of like, ‘Why are, why are you even here? You’re just going to get pregnant.’ ” She emphasized that the hurdles she faced only motivated her

to work harder and to stick with what she loved. She initially wore drab clothing to prove her presence in the gym was to box.

But when Esparza established herself in the sport, she found she began to earn respect from her male counterparts, she added.

“Once I started reaching the point where I would win … I started beating up guys in sparring,” she said. “Everyone started coming around a little bit, and then I could be myself.”

With her success, she began to change the assumptions surrounding female boxers. While people used to dislike the idea of women being feminine and boxing, Esparza said, they now love it.

Esparza threw herself into training. Working out six days a week, she perfected her technique, went on runs and performed strength training. For years, she prepared for Olympic competition. But despite her intense training, Esparza said she did not fully realize how far she had come until a pivotal moment at the 2012 Games.

“It didn’t hit me [that I was at the Olympics] until I was walking to the ring. Which is the wrong time for it to hit you,” Esparza said, drawing laughter.

Eliciting further laughter, Esparza described working out in the Olympic Village one day with her trainer when a crowd began to gather around her. Growing nervous as the group grew larger, she continued to train, but finally she looked up from her training to see members of the United States’ men’s basketball team watching her.

“Oh, they’re not watching me,” she said. “They’re watching like Lebron watch me.”

The weeks after the games represented her first break from training in twelve years. During

mates or learning a new offense, however, since he did the same thing before his senior year of high school.

He transferred from Jesuit High School in Portland, Ore., to football powerhouse St. Ignatius in Cleveland.

[Williams] managed the game pretty well. He made a few mistakes...but he kept playing.

TONY RENO Head coach, football “I liked it out there [in Oregon],” Eric said.

“But coming into my senior year I wasn’t fitting in there academically or athletically.”

Eric led St. Ignatius to its 11th Division I State Football championship, but it turns out he had athletic dreams beyond the gridiron.

Until his junior year of high school, Williams said he wanted to play basketball in college.

Luckily for Yale, he chose football.

Williams and the Bulldogs will next play on Saturday, Sept. 22, when they travel to Cornell.

Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .

YALE ATHLETICS

Eric Williams ’16 followed two brothers to Yale.

Innovative play good for football COLUMN FROM PAGE 12

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Olympic medalist Marlen Esparza had to promise to take her younger brother to the gym before her father agreed to let her take boxing lessons. this time, she has thrown herself into a clothing line, an apparel line, a cosmetics line, a book and even a boxing Barbie. She has also signed with United Talent Agency, which floated the possibility of her commentating on HBO and ESPN. After the discussion ended, students posed with Esparza and the bronze medal as the Olym-

pian signed autographs for the crowd.

“I thought she was really genuine,” Javier Cienfuegos ’15 said.

La Casa co-sponsored the event with the Athletics Department and the Intercultural Affairs council.

Contact ALEX EPPLER at alexander.eppler@yale.edu .

speak, but he actually makes a good point, considering the last two minutes of football are often some of the most boring.

I don’t want to ignore the m o re n u a n ce d a rg u m e n t Coughlin made during postgame interviews. Last year’s Super Bowl ring-earner continued his tirade against the play by expounding on his earlier thoughts. “You jeopardize the offensive line. You jeopardize the quarterback. Thank goodness we didn’t get anyone hurt — that we know of.”

Now his thesis has an argument to back it up. He’s a few footnotes and empirical statistics away from a B+ paper.

Surely, we want to reduce the potential for injury in football as much as possible without overly distorting the nature of the game. To Coughlin, I’m sure the play seemed unnecessary, with the chance of success far outweighing the potential risk posed to both teams — and on that level, he may be right.

The NFL has moved kickoff distances forward, increased scrutiny on rough hits and implemented tougher rules for the return of concussed players.

More contact isn’t necessarily good for a sport that’s having a hard time reconciling with its brutal nature.

And if attacking the kneeldown becomes more widespread, NFL offenses will adjust. Defenses gutsy enough to try the play will eventually be met by an O-line that’s prepared for the onslaught of linebackers. The chances for success will decrease dramatically, and the end-of-game situation will arrive at a similar steady-

state equilibrium. The leading team takes possession. The quarterback kneels down, and players at the line of scrimmage will tussle head-to-head instead of waiting patiently for the end of the game. In fact, this is a worse equilibrium than we started with; we’re left with the same result as before, but with more chance for injury. I’m sure Coughlin didn’t work through all the game theory before the postgame press conference, but thinking through the future of a play such as this gives some credence to his rant.

PROHIBITED BEHAVIOR IS NOTHING MORE THAN WHAT THE RULEBOOK SAYS Maybe the NFL needs a rule preventing contact during a kneel-down. But I’ll side with Schiano for now — no such rule is in place. Until then, I have absolutely no problem with teams using any legal strategy or advantage possible to win. In fact, I encourage players and coaches to do so whenever possible; it makes the game more unpredictable — and more exciting — for the rest of us.

No apology necessary, Schiano — what Coughlin thinks “you don’t do” doesn’t matter.

Contact EVAN FRONDORF at evan.frondorf@yale.edu .

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FOOTBALL IVY LEAGUE HONOR ROLL Linebacker Will McHale ’13, right, and wide receiver Cameron Sandquist ’14 both made the Ivy League Honor Roll this week for the Bulldogs. Sandquist had a 98-yard touchdown catch iagainst Georgetown last Saturday, while McHale made six solo tackles.

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CAMERON SANDQUIST ’14 WIDE RECEIVER, FOOTBALL

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Yale routs Albany to end skid

EVAN FRONDORF

Unwritten rules are made to be broken

VOLLEYBALL

BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER

BY EVAN FRONDORF CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST

Maybe we should keep a closer eye on coaches’ conduct after a game: They can’t even seem to get through the postgame handshake without going at it.

Last year, 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh shook Lions coach Jim Schwartz’s hand just a little too forcefully after a tense game, nearly resulting in fisticuffs. On Sunday, the Giants-Buccaneers game concluded with New York coach Tom Coughlin screaming at first-year Tampa Bay coach Greg Schiano.

There was no violence this time around, only some “lighthearted” lessons from a star teacher to a rookie scholar. But what was it all about?

The end-of-game kneel-down, the least interesting play in football.

When the Giants’ Eli Manning took a knee to seal a no-defense 41–34 victory on Sunday, the Bucs weren’t quite ready to shut things down in East Rutherford, N.J. Schiano ordered his defense to try to tackle the unaware Manning, with the hope of dislodging the ball. For anyone who watches college football or the NFL regularly, this is rare and quite aggressive. Manning obviously didn’t expect it; he was forcefully jolted backward onto the ground (with ball securely in hand, however). No harm, no foul, right? Coughlin didn’t think so, barking, “You don’t do that in this league.”

Does that matter — that “you don’t do that in this league”?

Coughlin may be a coach who wins by upholding traditional strategic principles, but that doesn’t mean anything that breaks from tradition is wrong. Attacking the kneel-down is not against the rules, and Schiano responded, “There’s nothing dirty about it.” NFL spokesman Greg Aiello agreed with the usual bureaucratic language. “There were no violations on the play or afterward that would require follow-up from our office,” he said.

That’s settled. Not a rules violation? Then go right ahead.

I’m tired of coaches and managers dictating what’s allowed and not allowed in a game. Prohibited behavior begins and ends with the last page of the rulebook.

When coaches aren’t allowed to try anything new, there’s no room for innovation in football strategy.

Where would football be today if we didn’t occasionally try and break this guarded code of “unwritten rules”?

Maybe we wouldn’t have Walter Camp’s forward pass, and maybe Tony Reno wouldn’t have been “allowed” to try a fake punt against Georgetown last Saturday.

WHEN COACHES ARE NOT ALLOWED TO INNOVATE, THERE IS NO ROOM FOR PROGRESS IN FOOTBALL STRATEGY And let’s be honest, the final minute of a close NFL game should be exciting, not inevitably determined by the pleasantries and tradition of taking a knee. Far too often a team is up by a touchdown and merely whittles away the clock with a couple of kneel-downs. Manning justified the Giants’ decision to run the clock by saying, “We’re taking a knee … in a friendly way.” I’m not sure if the kneel-down is the pinnacle of sportsmanship, but rather a way for a team to play it safe and secure the victory.

Would you not like to see a losing team do something with that remaining time? A game lasts 60 minutes, not 58 or so minutes until the leading team takes possession and does absolutely nothing. Perhaps Schiano, who said he used this end-of-game play while coaching at Rutgers, is merely advancing the game through this aggressive strategy, giving a losing team more chances to win — just as the fake punt, the onside kick and other trick plays have modernized the game. It’s not likely to work, but why not try? Don’t we want more chances for a comeback? As the rookie coach said in a press conference after the game, “[We] fight until they say, ‘Game over.’” This might come off as banal motivational coachSEE COLUMN PAGE 11

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Setter Kendall Polan ’14, left, and middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’16 had a combined 20 kills in 32 attempts in Wednesday’s win against Albany. With the victory, the Elis snapped a four-game losing streak.

Rookie Williams makes his mark

Members of the volleyball team put an 0–3 weekend behind them and finished off their nonconference schedule in emphatic fashion on Wednesday night with a 3–0 trouncing of Albany in the John J. Lee Amphitheater.

The Elis’ strong play was a welcome sight after they won just one set against three difficult opponents during a trip to San Diego, Calif., last weekend.

Head coach Erin Appleman said that the win puts Yale into a good position heading into conference play.

“I was really proud of them tonight,” she said. “I think it helps getting that win and having confidence going in [to the weekend].”

The Bulldogs took the match in just one hour and 16 minutes and put Albany through a thorough beating in the process.

The Great Danes scored just 44 points to Yale’s 75 and mustered a measly .140 hitting percentage.

Meanwhile, Yale hit .378, accumulated 51 assists and had three players hit double-digit kills.

Appleman said she saw encouraging improvements from everybody on the court.

“We’ve been working on a couple things, and we were able to demonstrate that tonight,” she said. “Our serving and passing was much better tonight, and I thought the middles were very good.”

Outside hitter Mollie Rogers ’15 was the offensive leader for Yale with 12 kills while middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’16 and setter Kendall Polan ’14 combined to log 20 kills in just 32 attempts.

On the other side of the net, Albany’s greatest offensive threat, Sara Pope, did not manage to mount much of a challenge to the Yale defense. Pope, who is leading the Great Danes with 2.36 kills per set, posted just five kills on 18 attempts for a .222 hitSEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 11

Esparza floors crowd at Heritage

BY ALEX EPPLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

The rookie signal caller has already led the Bulldogs to a historic 24–21 win at Georgetown last Saturday. He connected with wide receiver Cameron Sandquist ’14 for a record-breaking 98-yard touchdown pass, but

At the close of her Olympic semifinal bout against Ren Cancan of China, boxer Marlen Esparza thought her efforts would either take her to a tiebreak or the finals.

Going into the Olympics, Esparza, a 22-year-old flyweight, said she was ready to give up competitive boxing when she came home. When her losing score was announced and she had to settle for the bronze, it revitalized her drive to continue boxing for the gold.

There is no bronze-medal match in Olympic boxing, and both fighters who lose their semifinal matches take bronze medals. But Esparza did not want to give up the fight.

“I’m thinking, and I’m thinking, and I was like ‘So what’s going to make me happy?’ I got to go back. I’ve got to get a gold medal,” she told a room of 150 students and faculty Wednesday.

The audience packed Sterling Memorial

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YALE ATHLETICS

Quarterback Eric Williams ’16, No. 8, led Yale to a season-opening 24-21 win at Georgetown.

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER Playing quarterback at Yale can prove challenging, especially for the few freshmen who have gone under center, but Eric Williams ’16 appears up to the challenge.

STAT OF THE DAY .378

THE HITTING PERCENTAGE FOR YALE’S VOLLEYBALL TEAM AGAINST ALBANY WEDNESDAY NIGHT. Albany had a hitting percentage of .140. The mark was the highest hitting percentage of the season thus far for the Bulldogs, who now begin Ivy play.